FBI says it has nabbed 'king' of spam mail

December 02, 2010

A 23-year-old Russian is accused in Milwaukee of generating a third of the world's computer spam.

An FBI agent is credited with bringing down the 'king of spam' -- a Moscow man accused of controlling a network of infected computers generating an estimated 10 billion unwanted e-mails a day.A federal criminal complaint says the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission have been tracking Oleg Nikolaenko since at least 2007. He was arrested last month during a visit to Las Vegas. He's scheduled to appear in federal court in Milwaukee Friday.